Nitrous Oxide Reductase (nosZ) Gene Fragments Differ between Native and Cultivated Michigan Soils

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 301-309

  Stres, Blaž ^a,b   Mahne, Ivan ^a   Avguštin, Gorazd ^b   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; CLONING; CULTIVATION; GENES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SCREENING; SOILS;

RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS (RFLP);

MICROBIOLOGY;

NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE;

AGRICULTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NOSZ GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICHIGAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0347761170     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.1.301-309.2004     Document Type: Article

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